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Jan 22, 2022
Investors are fleeing riskier assets from tech stocks to cryptocurrencies as the Federal Reserve weighs whether to launch a U.S. digital currency.
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Jan 22, 2022
Investors are fleeing riskier assets from tech stocks to cryptocurrencies as the Federal Reserve weighs whether to launch a U.S. digital currency.
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Jan 22, 2022
The company needs to contend with growing competition from reopening gyms and from companies such as Apple expanding into fitness tech. And there are questions about how Peloton has dealt with its growing roster of problems.
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Jan 22, 2022
A new poll suggests the First Amendment is popular only in the abstract.
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Jan 22, 2022
After months of damaging internal bickering, the president needs to unite his party behind more realistic legislative goals and refocus voters' attention on the GOP's failings.
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Jan 22, 2022
Rodriguez's mother said her daughter experienced depression and sleep deprivation as a result of her addiction to Instagram and Snapchat.
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Jan 22, 2022
The government pushed to bring power to rural America in the mid-20th century. It can make a similar choice for electric vehicles.
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Jan 22, 2022
NFTs and social networks have something crucial in common: They're both vehicles for conveying status and identity.
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Jan 22, 2022
After years of barely budging, wage growth is finally at its highest level in decades. A global pandemic, combined with swift government stimulus and unexpected labor shortages have put workers in the drivers' seat, giving them the kind of negotiating power they'd never imagined. But in an unexpected twist, the same strong economic recovery that is emboldening workers is also driving up inflation, leaving most Americans with less spending power than they had a year ago.
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Jan 22, 2022
Britain is awaiting the official investigation report into Downing St. parties. But expectations shouldn't be too high.
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Jan 22, 2022
Russia's threat to send troops to Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela isn't worrisome for the U.S. — unless it includes nuclear cruise missiles.
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Jan 22, 2022
Vladimir Putin has built up fiscal and other defenses that will insulate the country against Western sanctions. But autarky comes at a cost.
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Jan 22, 2022
The beginning of earnings season is confirmation that investors really do need to be worried about rising cost pressures.
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Jan 22, 2022
Britain's once-popular prime minister has become a serious electoral liability.
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Jan 21, 2022
The biggest drive of the plunge was growing concerns that persistently high inflation will force the Federal Reserve to aggressively raise interest rates this year.
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Jan 21, 2022
The investment comes during a broader computer chip shortage that has held back numerous industries.
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Jan 21, 2022
USPS has added thousands of seasonal employees and converted more than 40 facilities to house, process and ship the tests.
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Jan 21, 2022
The narrow spread between junk bond and Treasury yields suggests that what is happening in stocks may be little more than a routine repricing after a strong run-up.
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Jan 21, 2022
USPS has added thousands of seasonal employees and converted more than 40 facilities to house, process and ship the tests.
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Jan 21, 2022
Quality assurance testers at Raven Software have asked management to recognize their union.
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Jan 21, 2022
Esports executives invested in Activision Blizzard esports see Microsoft's pending acquisition as a ringing endorsement for the future of the competitive gaming industry. It's just too early to tell what it might mean for the "Call of Duty League" or "Overwatch League."
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Jan 21, 2022
The ruling amounted to yet another blow to the administration's attempts to increase vaccinations through requirements.
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Jan 21, 2022
Party leaders have decided that running without a legislative agenda is the winning 2022 strategy. One problem with their plan: If it works, it'll make governing painful.
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Jan 21, 2022
One resilient New Jersey baker who has so far managed to outrun the pandemic now worries she may have to close up shop.
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Jan 21, 2022
Seven large tech companies spent nearly $70 million lobbying the U.S. government in 2021, as policymakers from both parties weighed legislation to curtail their power and influence.
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Jan 21, 2022
The IRS isn't coming after your Venmo or Paypal transactions with friends and family. But it does want information on your side-hustle income.
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Jan 21, 2022
Prime Minister Viktor Orban's subversion of mainstream politics in Hungary has become a case study for inspiring populists and a cautionary tale for defenders of democracy. With opposition parties now uniting to attempt to oust him in the April 3 general election, and the European Union threatening to bleed his government financially, Orban is facing the biggest test to his rule.
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Jan 21, 2022
The investment comes during a broader computer chip shortage that has held back numerous industries.
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Jan 21, 2022
Once upon a time, sheep entrails were used to predict the future. It might have worked nearly as well as today's sophisticated inflation modeling.
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Jan 21, 2022
Like the faux meat boom, zero-alcohol beverages are a health-conscious trend with important ethical and environmental implications.
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Jan 21, 2022
A bedrock democratic institution, voting, continues to divide the two major U.S. political parties. States run by Republicans and states run by Democrats are increasingly diverging in their policies on registering to vote, voting in person and voting by mail. These state-by-state battles are a legacy of the 2020 presidential election and former President Donald Trump's insistence, contrary to all evidence, that it was stolen from him and delivered to Joe Biden. Even the process of declaring whic
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Jan 21, 2022
Negotiating the future size and shape of the alliance would be tantamount to surrender.
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Jan 21, 2022
How to get rid of those pesky, forgotten subscription charges
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Jan 21, 2022
Bail has become the center of an increasingly heated debate across the U.S., as reforms that had been years in the making collide with a rise in violent crime in many cities since the start of the pandemic. New York and Illinois have passed legislation greatly restricting the use of so-called cash bail, a practice so widespread that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights found in a report released Jan. 20 that 60% of defendants wind up in jail awaiting trial because they can't afford to post bail.
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Jan 21, 2022
The company's purchase of a London office complex highlights a shortage of the kind of space post-pandemic work demands.
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Jan 21, 2022
Cryptocurrencies won't conquer our wallets until they capture more of our imaginations.
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Jan 21, 2022
Nearly 50 years after Roe v. Wade, the future of women's rights — and the Supreme Court's reputation — hangs in the balance.
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Jan 21, 2022
HOUSE OF THE WEEK | The four-bedroom, five-bathroom penthouse and two-bedroom, two-bathroom staff apartment are being sold together for just under $6 million.
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Jan 21, 2022
The IRS isn't coming after your Venmo or Paypal transactions with friends and family. But it does want information on your side-hustle income.
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Jan 21, 2022
Moves to undermine the British Broadcasting Corporation threaten what to this day remains the former imperial power's most powerful tool of global influence.
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Jan 21, 2022
If Russia's president is smart — and he is — he'll try to divide the transatlantic and European partners as he subjugates Ukraine.
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Jan 21, 2022
A deal with GSK would have helped the consumer goods giant expand into consumer health. It's chosen a lonelier road.
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Jan 21, 2022
Drugmakers are playing omicron whack-a-mole when the focus should be on a new generation of pan-coronavirus shots.
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Jan 21, 2022
The officials allegedly plotted to force a Ryanair flight to make an emergency landing in Minsk.
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Jan 20, 2022
There's an argument to be made for strong valuations, but the e-commerce player needs to prove that growth can be profitable.
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Jan 20, 2022
A warning about subscriber numbers this quarter suggests growth opportunities are slowing. The streaming giant's shares tumbled after hours.
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Jan 20, 2022
A little luck and a lot of debt reduction helped a pair of once-troubled developers dodge the worst of the turmoil
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Jan 20, 2022
There's a price risk — and a reputation gamble — associated with buying up assets now. Why go there when giant deposits are still sitting on the company's books?
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Jan 20, 2022
The Washington Post's picks of noteworthy residences on the market.
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Jan 20, 2022
The BOJ chief's categorical refusal to raise the cost of borrowing may seem stark. But it reminds us that there are some key outliers to the global trend.
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Jan 20, 2022
Consumer spending is shifting from pandemic-inspired goods back to services.
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Jan 20, 2022
Two people were killed in the 2019 crash when the car abruptly left the freeway and ran a red light, according to reports.
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Jan 20, 2022
The economy is going great. Employment is up and so are the stock markets and housing prices, but political divisiveness is undermining everything.
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Jan 20, 2022
The landmark Digital Services Act would require tech companies to police content on their platforms more aggressively and introduce new restrictions on advertising, among other provisions.
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Jan 20, 2022
The Federal Reserve on Thursday issued a long-awaited report weighing whether to launch its own digital currency.
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Jan 20, 2022
The answers some of Nina Strohminger's business students at the University of Pennsylvania provided give insight into how people understand the world around them, experts said.
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Jan 20, 2022
The 30,000-square-foot shop opening this year in California will harness QR codes and real-time recommendations for a ‘seamless' shopping experience
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Jan 20, 2022
The once-lowly beverage is enjoying a renaissance thanks to Silicon Valley obsessives and premium blends, but is it worth the hype?
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Jan 20, 2022
If current trends continue, the California metropolis might be trading its once dynamic economy for a period of stagnation.
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Jan 20, 2022
Microsoft has carved out a distinct reputation among policy makers, distancing itself from the political scrutiny embroiling its top competitors in Washington
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Jan 20, 2022
Collectors aren't just paying crazy prices for blockchain entries. They're also buying affordable access to communities and the opportunities that come with it. (Ask Eminem.)
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Jan 20, 2022
CNBC, citing internal documents, says the company will hit pause amid slowing demand for its connected Bike and treadmill.
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Jan 20, 2022
The at times heated debate over the legislation followed an aggressive lobbying blitz from tech giants and their surrogates, which appeared to resonate with a pair of California senators.
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Jan 20, 2022
These are the 47 accounts whose audience numbers The Post analyzed.
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Jan 20, 2022
Two years into the pandemic, weary governments are hoping the fast-spreading but less severe omicron variant marks a turning point, a shift toward a more predictable and manageable phase. Determined to escape the crisis and avoid more restrictions, officials in some countries suggest it's approaching time to treat Covid as an endemic disease, like seasonal flu. World Health Organization experts say that's premature. With omicron ripping through populations and vast parts of the planet still unva
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Jan 20, 2022
The 3.56% average rate for a 30-year loan is the highest since March 2020, but the lure of surging real estate prices might keep buyers piling into the housing market.
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Jan 20, 2022
Crypto enthusiasts don't only dream of revolutionizing the world of money. They want to reinvent the World Wide Web. That vision, which goes by the name of "Web3," is of a decentralized environment built on crypto technology in which swarms of collaborators take back control of the web from giant tech companies. It's a threat that those tech firms -- including Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. and Twitter Inc. -- are starting to take seriously.
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Jan 20, 2022
These markets have a ratio of median home sales price to median household income on the lower half of the 379 metro areas in the analysis, which means homes are less likely to be overvalued.
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Jan 20, 2022
Bobby Kotick answered employee questions about the company's acquisition by Microsoft during a Thursday morning video chat.
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Jan 20, 2022
1331 Maryland Ave. SW has been leasing for a year and made headlines early by revealing penthouses with rents topping $20,000 a month.
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Jan 20, 2022
The president's approach to policy making simply isn't working.
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Jan 20, 2022
Europe and the U.S. might have to pick up the pace if emerging-market digital-currency projects start to bear fruit.
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Jan 20, 2022
The Supreme Court's ruling granting Congress access to some of the former president's records is also a victory for the rule of law.
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Jan 20, 2022
Some creators on Twitch are broadcasting themselves watching copyrighted material, raising the complicated question of what constitutes fair use.
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Jan 20, 2022
The metaverse is a virtual universe that blends aspects of digital technologies including video-conferencing, games like Minecraft or Roblox, cryptocurrencies, email, virtual reality, social media and live-streaming. Quite how these pieces will fit together is a work in progress, but some tech giants already see it as the future of human communication and interaction. It's "the next frontier," Mark Zuckerberg said when he changed his company's name from Facebook to Meta Platforms Inc. Commercial
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Jan 20, 2022
The newly minted Microsoft Gaming CEO discussed how his company plans to approach its new intellectual properties and its employees.
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Jan 20, 2022
Indonesia is the top exporter of coal for power stations and the biggest palm oil producer in the world. It also holds a quarter of all nickel reserves. So policy shifts in the Southeast Asian archipelago -- such as new restrictions on coal shipments or a proposed nickel export tax -- often reverberate across global commodities markets, roiling trading and pushing up prices for other countries that need the supplies. President Joko Widodo is nevertheless forging ahead with what's known as resour
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Jan 20, 2022
The 30,000-square-foot shop opening this year in California will harness QR codes and real-time recommendations for a ‘seamless' shopping experience
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Jan 20, 2022
The 30-year fixed-rate average climbed to 3.56 percent this week, its highest level since March 2020.
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Jan 20, 2022
New court filings from New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) provide an exhaustive look at Trump's financials, making more clear what investigators know -- and what they're still looking for.
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Jan 20, 2022
Doctors and patients described frustration over delayed surgeries, overflowing emergency rooms and hospital beds that have been taken out of service because of a lack of staff.
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Jan 20, 2022
Nearly 9 million people missed work in late December and early January as the omicron variant bit into the labor market.
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Jan 20, 2022
It's understandable to want to call out backstabbers and bullies at your old job. But it may not actually help you move on.
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Jan 19, 2022
New York Attorney General Letitia James outlined the claims in a bid to force Trump and his adult children to testify in a civil probe.
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Jan 19, 2022
At its height, Pandemic-EBT fed millions of low-income students. Now it's faltering as burdened administrators opt out.
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Jan 18, 2022
Baltimore's chief prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, has been accused of making false loan applications. Based on the court filing, she's at least guilty of making some bad money moves.
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Jan 18, 2022
The oil giant says it has identified more than 150 potential steps to decrease its environmental impact over time.
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Jan 18, 2022
Carhartt CEO Mark Valade said company policy on "an unvaccinated workforce" remains unchanged, prompting some to swear they would no longer buy the brand's products.
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Jan 18, 2022
The oil giant says it has identified more than 150 potential steps to decrease its environmental impact over time.
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Jan 18, 2022
Stocks' record-breaking run in 2021 has given way to a choppy start to 2022 trading.
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Jan 18, 2022
At a Cracker Barrel in Tennessee, William Cronnon was served the chemical Eco-San, a cleaning agent in the kitchen, that has since caused him years of gastrointestinal issues, according to court documents.
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Jan 16, 2022
For two years, campaigners representing the people of Hong Kong, Tibet and China's Xinjiang region have been pushing U.S. and Western companies to drop their sponsorships of the Games, which start Feb. 4. None have.
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Jan 15, 2022
The omicron surge has worsened worker shortages and supply chain disruptions, helping fuel inflation. This spring could see another threat as cargo carriers and the longshore workers' union begin talks aimed at a new contract. Shippers fear a repeat of the work slowdowns and employer retaliation that snarled West Coast ports for several months in 2014-2015.
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